Bad Roommate Habits
Things to watch out for and habits to avoid.
"New roommates are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."
"He was the best of roommates, he was the worst of roommates?"
In your old room at home, sleeping naked or wandering around in your underwear is perfectly acceptable. Unless you're really lucky, you probably won't be able to live that way with your new roommate. Roommates will learn to live with most habits, but, there are some behaviors that cross the line... or make you want to draw a line across half of the room. If you find your life being increasingly irritated by some of these habits, confront your roommate about how you can work together to ease the growing tensions. There is a good chance that your roommate has some beef with a few of your habits too, and its better to deal with it before it becomes a situation where you're afraid that you will wake up at night to find your roommate hovering over you with a knife in hand. Here are a few of the more common complaints.
Warning Tickets
Leaving soda cans, dirty dishes etc. all around
Never taking out the trash
Offensive room decorations
Barging in when you're naked
Never knocking when the door is locked
Do not use furniture as a napkin. Use a napkin.
Not giving you telephone messages
Misdemeanors
Singing with headphones on
Possession of smelly laundry
Not washing bed sheets
Unauthorized use of your computer
Never offering to buy printer supplies (if you're sharing a printer)
Leaving the fluorescent light on all night while you're trying to sleep
Mail theft
Eating all of your food
Always having people in the room, or never leaving the room. Everyone needs some alone time.
Felonies
Having a "live-in" boyfriend or girlfriend. You could've sworn only 2 people are supposed to live in your room.
Sexiling beyond reason
Destroying something in the room, getting fined, and blaming it on you
Breaking something of yours and not telling you. Don't try to hide it, that strategy really never seems to work.
Failing to maintain personal hygiene on a regular basis
Asking to use one of your papers for their class
Puking in the room
|